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Dan Ferguson d28032fab4 v2 alpha
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pseudotv-plex

Create Live TV/DVR channels from playlists in Plex.

DVR Guide

How it works

  1. pseudotv-plex will scan Plex for playlists. Playlists with a summary starting with pseudotv will be fetched.
  2. XMLTV and M3U files are generated from playlists, using metadata pulled from Plex.
  3. Add the PseudoTV (spoofed HDHomeRun) tuner into Plex, use the XMLTV file as your EPG provider.
  4. Watch your psudeo live tv channels

Features

  • Plex transcoding (psuedotv-plex spoofs a Chrome Web Player, in order to receive a h264/aac stream from Plex)
  • Live FFMPEG or VLC mpegts transmuxing
  • Prebuffering (FFMPEG only) - transcodes entire video as fast as possible (not live stream)
  • Auto update Plex DVR channel mappings and EPG.
  • Web UI for manually triggering EPG updates

So far only tested in Windows. Should work cross platform. Docker container support coming soon.

Critical Issues: Continuous playback is pretty much broken. I think the only way to get around that would be to transcode videos to a fixed framerate/bitrate. I really wish Plex documented their full API, there might be some parameters we can send to get such a stream..

Prerequisites

Install NodeJS, and either VLC or FFMPEG

Install

npm install

Configure

You must provide your Plex server details and the location of VLC or FFMPEG

Edit the config.yml configuration file

Start

npm start

Plex Playlist Setup

To assign a playlist as a channel, edit the summary of the playlist in Plex and write pseudotv at the beginning.

optional parameters: channelNumber, iconURL and/or shuffle. In any order..

Plex Playlist Example

Title

My Channel Name

Summary

pseudotv 100 shuffle http://some.url/channel-icon.png

Plex DVR Setup

Add the PseudoTV tuner to Plex. Use the "Don't see your HDHomerun device? Enter its network address manually" option if it doesn't show up automatically.

Use the generated XMLTV file as your EPG provider.

You wont be able to add the tuner to Plex until at least one channel has been generated.

Plex Transcoding

When a channel is requested, pseudotv-plex will determine the current playing program and request a transcoded stream from Plex. When pseudotv-plex recieves the h264/acc stream,it is remuxed (using vlc or ffmpeg) into a mpegts container to be utilized by Plex DVR.

DVR Guide

PseudoTV Web UI

Manually trigger EPG updates and view active channels using the Web UI.

DVR Guide